LOCAL NOTES

Two Santa Ana College football players have orally committed to four-year schools, college officials said. Tackle Matt Welch will attend USC and defensive back Kody Miller will go to Pittsburgh.

Welch, who played at Villa Park, was a first-team All-Mission Conference selection. Miller, who played at Canyon High, was the Mission Conference Central Division’s defensive player of the year.

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Tim Odle announced Tuesday that he will not return next season as men’s soccer coach at Concordia University.

Odle was an assistant coach for one season before taking the head coaching job last March.

Concordia was 4-14 last season. Odle, who teaches science at St. John’s middle school in Orange, said he plans to concentrate on his teaching duties.

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Corona del Mar has been named national champion in girls’ tennis by USA Today. The Sea Kings, which won the Southern Section Division I title in December, were ranked No. 1 in a poll of coaches from eight regions across the country. The poll of Jan. 8 was based on strength of schedule, record and national rankings of individual players.

Corona del Mar Coach Tim Mang said his players were ecstatic when they learned of the ranking.

“They’re still trying to get over being CIF champs,” he said. “This is fantastic.”

Bradenton (Fla.) Academy was ranked second, Del Mar Torrey Pines seventh and Palos Verdes Peninsula, whom Corona del Mar beat in the Division I final, was 13th.